Questions tagged [sprint-backlog]
The sprint backlog is the list of work the development team must address during the next sprint. It's commonly known with Scrum.
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Subtasks vs Tasks for Sprint backlog
My question relates specifically to project management using Jira by Atlassian.
My product backlog mostly consists of user stories, since this is the most useful to my non-technical product owner.
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In Scrum, should we prepare the Product Backlog at the beginning of each Sprint or only at the beginning of the project?
I know that the Sprint Backlog is a subset of the Product Backlog which contains the tasks to be completed in the current Sprint. Does this mean that the Product Backlog should be fully ready and ...
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How to include research tasks (e.g. user interviews, a contextual inquiry, etc.) or experiments (e.g. A/B test) to a sprint backlog? [duplicate]
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Research needs to be done before development so we can make sure we are later developing the “right” thing.
Research takes a lot of time and it is almost impossible to have our findings in ...
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Who decides if something should NOT be injected into a Sprint?
On some teams, I've seen it be a combination of operations and Product Management stating that either new/missed requirements came in, or bugs are severe enough to warrant injection. The Scrum Team ...
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How to document and reference features in the backlog
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During user research phases I document user needs as user stories. Then we brainstorm high-level solutions before it's time to turn them into real features.
I'm having trouble referencing the ...
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Can a Project Startup Checklist be part of a Sprint Backlog?
Can "Project Startup Checklist" be a Sprint Backlog for product planning,which is event planning for my project? I have made "Identifying Project Startup Checklist" as a Sprint ...
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Estimating values in Sprint Backlog
How is value (in a scale of 1-10) assigned in Estimate of Value calculated (For instance as shown in figure below) in Product Backlog in Scrum Process?
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How to properly add or manage a repeated User Story in Auzre DevOps's backlog?
A user story needs to happen each sprint, and I want it to handle it properly - whatever that may mean - within Azure DevOps. I am used to adding user stories for single-issue tickets but have never ...
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Review of sprint board during the sprint session?
What is the name of the session that the scrum master and PO during the sprint review the sprint board to see and the progress, update the status of the tickets and sometimes include some team members ...
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Showing interdependency of items in backlog
In cases where we have two stories dependent on the same task, is there a way to show the dependency besides adding a comment in the stories? Additionally, in cases with multiple dependencies that are ...
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Should user stories be delivered orally?
I have studied software engineering and learned a decent amount about requirements engineering. I also took a course in Scrum.
I've now worked at several different companies, and so far, I haven't ...
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Should we re-estime (reduce) story points of a task that we started but didn't finish last sprint? [duplicate]
I need an advice and it's about the best option to choose in an agile project, here is the situation :
A sprint backlog contains between 15 and 20 user stories
A the last day of the sprint, we ...
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Acceptance Criteria, Given/When/Then format demote readability of user story?
I'm creating Acceptance Criteria for user stories.
Since it seems to be the main way to do it in my current company.
I feel that Given/When/Then always demote user story's readability and increase ...
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Are User Stories from Sprint Backlog assigned to individual developers?
Let's suppose the development team is planning the next Sprint. What does it technically mean that a User Story is added to the Sprint Backlog? Is it assigned to a developer or to the whole team? (If ...
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Backlog Grooming
I have a question regarding backlog grooming. I have completed product prioritization using MoSCOW method. I have it prioritized it as follows. I have rationalized it working with client and gathering ...
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When should be done Backlog Refinement Meeting? [closed]
I am a new PO so please help me or guide to understand this better.
Per Scrum Guide, I do Sprint planning, my o/p is sprint goal and sprint backlog. I already come to the meeting with PBs and user ...
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Can a story be put on hold within a Sprint?
The team is working with a user story and they are stuck on some technical issues and unable to resolve them. This story is committed for the current Sprint. Shall I put this story on hold after ...
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Some of the epics are shown on the active Sprint view, I'm not able to remove them
For some reason some of the epics are displayed as swimlanes on active Sprint view. Board filter, sorting config are fine.
Any ideas?
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In Scrum, what should we do with partly-completed work started at the end of a Sprint?
I get most of Scrum. However, I can't get my head around what to do with work in progress at the end of a Sprint.
If we are working in a swarm, we can defer the end of a Sprint, or bring it forward ...
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How to structure backlog and ceremonies around a team with separate skillsets working from a backlog which is not directly connected
I have a team of engineers who are building a data intelligence capability for the organisation.
As such the team members are I-shaped and the work is I-shaped i.e. 1 team member can only work from 1 ...
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User Story breakdown - Technical Task + User Feature
My team is building a web application that has the following high-level user story:
As a user, I would like the ability to bulk exclude components from a
given country.
The work breaks down into ...
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Sprint demo feedback
Sprint demos are done at the end of each sprint to the clients. This helps to identify the issues and collect feedback from the clients. I have a question about implementing the demo feedback. Should ...
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Should we add more items to sprint backlog if there is items that are not completed
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Should we add more items in a sprint if there is items that are not completed but a developer is open.
Scenario:
Lets say we the development team are made up of 5 team members and we have ...
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Should User Stories be divided if they're not Done and the Sprint is almost over?
I have a user story for a login screen. It is in the active sprint. Part of it (andriod platform) cannot be done any time soon. The Sprint is almost over. What can I do?
Should I divide the user ...
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Can the Scrum Master role directly modify the Sprint Backlog?
Our company is migrating to Scrum. I've been thrust into the role of Scrum Master (with no formal training—but I'm working on that). Our team doesn't have a Product Owner due to the structure of our ...
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Should a technical person take part of the user stories prioritization process?
As a Tech Lead within a "Scrum" team, I am annoying regarding some laid rules.
It is established that only Product Owner, Business Analyst and Scrum Master (and eventually Product Manager) take part ...
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Small story got bigger, what to do with the big bit?
Under Scrum, we have a story which was estimated to be quite short. Once the story was picked up by a developer, it turned out that a significant amount of technical preparation is required, and this ...
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Project manager dumps all tickets in sprint
I have a project manager who's managing a sizable project (8 developers, duration over 6 months) with rapidly and constantly changing requirements. The PM has started dumping hundreds of tickets into ...
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How to deal with tasks detalization in sprint planning?
I have a newbie question. Let's suppose that for a sprint backlog we choose one user story from product backlog: "As a photography junky I want to be able to make a collection of favorite photos".
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Sprint backlog before going further with project
I've an ongoing project with very tight deadline. I'm allowed to extend project deadline, if required. I've implemented Scrum (sprints).
Issue is - I've some backlog since one weeks, that I couldn't ...
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Best (most agile) way to develop multiple products concurrently
I would like to restructure my development teams so that they can work in a more agile way, however each of those teams needs to develop changes for multiple products in their business area.
I've ...
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T-Shirt Size and total estimation, how to manage them?
I'm working on a project and the Product Owner has to decide if and how many new game-features implement in a SmartPhone app.
Those game-features have the goal of keep the user more active inside the ...
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How can we fix Sprint Planning meetings that are unproductive?
Currently, we have split "Sprint Planning Meeting" into two parts:
SPM1 - This we do at the first day of the sprint. Product owner discusses the stories that have come into the current sprint from ...
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What to do if a developer is waiting on a colleague to complete his side of the story during a sprint?
So today I was managing my team and they are in the middle of a sprint, I went over to my dev team just to find out how they are getting on. Turned out that one of my developers was waiting on his ...
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What to do if a member of a team finishes all his sprint tasks ahead of schedule?
I run 1 week sprints, lately my sprints are finishing ahead of schedule (one day before the end of the sprint) for one member of the team.
I know that some PMs wait until the next sprint cycle, ...
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Who should attend Sprint Replanning?
It is clear that in Sprint Planning the Product Owner has to be present. However, since the Development Team is responsible for current sprint work, does the PO need to attend Replanning? Although the ...
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Who truly prioritizes the product backlog? The Product Owner or Team?
I keep reading that during Product Backlog Grooming the development team meets with the PM and the Product Owner and as a team prioritizes the features.
Is it ultimately the Product Owner who decides ...
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Ineffective Backlog Grooming and Sprint Planning
I suspect that the problems on Scrum teams in my current organization supersede this one aspect, but wanted to focus the question more specifically to how Scrum can be done better than it is currently ...
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Should sprint backlog have MoSCoW prioritization applied?
Scrum states that the team should commit to delivering the stories in the sprint backlog. It is implied that once they have reached this limit, no more items are added to sprint backlog.
Should the ...
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User Stories structure for architectural requirenments
Once all user stories are written down for functional requirements, we still need to define some other requirements as communication with a remote server or navigation. This whole process could be ...
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Making burndown chart with 4 sprint
We are in a group of 3 students in computer science, and we are making a website for our customer.
First, we make a design for the website, and it took us 2 weeks to finish it. We converted it into ...
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Which strategies I can use to handle tickets during a scrum sprint?
My 4 man team directly handle most technical tickets, with a SLA from 8 hours to 24 office hours, means that during a sprint we must add these tickets in top of our current sprint backlog. We have one ...
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Who plans the items for an iteration/sprint?
In DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery), who is responsible when for moving work items from the release backlog to the iteration/sprint backlog?
I'd say that this is done by the scrum master during the ...
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What to do with the Sprint backlog tasks that we have decided are not needed any more
Can anybody answer my question here? I have estimated for 5 to 6 tasks like analysis (4 hrs), design (3 hrs), logical review (1 hr), peer review (1 hr), unit testing (1 hr), coding (2 hrs) and release ...
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Committing the Product Owner to a sprint backlog with a contract
A short introduction to the question: I'm a Scrum Master in a small web development organization (10 employees) and we do a lot of projects that'll last for 3 or 4 sprints, with an average duration of ...
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When to consider multiple PBIs when determining the HOW?
Consider that we have 10 Product Backlog Items (PBIs) that have been estimated and, if all goes well, will make it into our next sprint, after Sprint Planning. At what point would it be appropriate ...
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Defining user story in Scrum: how specific must they be? [duplicate]
As the title suggests: for example, the following user story too generic?
"A registered user wants to login in order to use the site's services"
Or, should I use more detailed user stories, like ...
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Can we use only one Scrum board for a team with multiple projects?
I am doing research for school. My research is covering how we could have one Scrum board for one team that works on multiple projects simultaneously.
Scrum methodology is not just for working on one ...
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Which guidelines are applicable for a single Scrum Team managing multiple backlogs?
Does the Agile community have recommended processes for a single Scrum Team managing tasks coming in from multiple backlogs?
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One Scrum Team
One Scrum Master
Delivering value to an ...
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In Jira where to login hours for tasks that is not part of sprint [closed]
There are some subtasks and their hours need to be tracked. They are not directly related to Sprint work but indirectly related to Sprint. There are not related to particular story so they cannot be ...
